Daniel Mateos-Moreno is an award-winning Spanish composer, educator and researcher. He is currently working as Professor (Associate) at the University of Malaga (Spain) and as Affiliated Academic at the School of Education, University of Glasgow (UK). Dr. Mateos-Moreno previously served as Reader in Music Education at the University of Karlstad (Sweden), Teaching Assistant in music composition at Carnegie-Mellon University (USA) and Associate Professor at the University of Malaga (Spain). In addition, he has worked as expert for the European Commission (Brussels) in the assessment of projects submitted to the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency of the European Union; and as studio and primary music teacher in schools from different countries.

Dr. Mateos-Moreno holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (UK), Carnegie-Mellon University (USA) and the University of Malaga (Spain). His research includes studies within the fields of music education, psychology of music, musicology, music therapy and dance therapy; by means of qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method methodologies. These studies have appeared in publications of Psychology of Music, International Journal of Music Education, Music Education Research, British Journal of Music Education, Arts in Psychotherapy, Electronic Journal of Music in Education, Education Sciences, Musica Hodie, Musica y Educacion, Revista Electronica de Investigacion y Docencia, Tercio Creciente and Eufonia. He has authored chapters for the books Music and Social Inclusion (Routledge), Arts Therapies Research and Practice (Routledge), La educación y la Formación Musical en el Siglo XXI (Silex) and Las Ciencias Sociales y la Cultura Andaluza (Grupo Editorial Universitario). 

Honors and prizes include listed in Who's Who in the World (New York, 31st Edition), included among Top 100 Educators (year 2014) by the International Biographical Center (Cambridge, UK), winner of the Maria Zambrano Research Prize in Arts & Humanities sponsored by Banco Santander (Malaga, Spain), first prize of the Harry G. Archer Memorial Prize for orchestral works in the 2005 edition (Pittsburgh, USA), finalist in the Morton Gould Young Composers Award (New York, USA) and grantee of the Cambridge European Trusts (University of Cambridge, UK), Andrew Carnegie Society (Pittsburgh, PA), Association pour la Creation et la Diffusion Artistique (Paris, France) and Sociedad General de Autores (Madrid, Spain). 

As a composer, laureated as “one of Spain’s finest young composer” by Northamerican music journal Soundboard (Richard Long), as the author of “very involving” music (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine), and “as an author who knows how to say whatever he wants while touching the audience” (Tomás Marco, El Mundo). Music compositions have been performed in different international venues such as Radiofabrik (Salzburg, Austria), National Spanish Radio (RNE2), Bethanienklooster (Amsterdam), Carnegie Music Hall & Kresge Recital Hall of Pittsburgh (USA), Bloomington Center for the Arts (USA), Cambridge Kettle's Yard (U.K.), Cardiff University Concert Hall (U.K.) and Millenium-Hall in Tokyo (Japan), among many others; by conductors such as Aldo Ceccato, Michael Thomas and Adrian Leaper. His music has been released by record labels Naxos and Nibius.